Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.
You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
I've always found the second book in a series is the hardest to write.
Well done is better than well said.
One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.
We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.
The world does not pay men for that which they 'know'. It pays them for what they do, or induce others to do.
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
One of the main weaknesses of mankind is the average man's familiarity with the word 'impossible'.
Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.
Real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics.
If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.
Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.
What I cannot create, I do not understand.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
This is the real secret of life - to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.
Why, look at me. I've worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.
